Overview

Bonds of love offers a fresh interpretation of a selection of prophetic texts that present the covenant relationship as a marital relationship. The accent in this study is on method: historical and biographical categories such as 'the prophet' and 'his career' are left aside in order to concentrate on the composition and internal cohesion of the text. The reading strategy developed in this book is both synchronic and communication-oriented. Since prophetic texts essentially consist of speech, it is insufficient to study the text in abstraction from the audience that it addresses. The texts have a communication purpose, and a three-part model is developed in order to investigate the communication effects of the text on the implied audience and the contemporary reader. The studies of Isaiah 50 and 54, Hosea 1-3 and Jeremiah 2-3 reveal that a synchronic interpretation of these texts can be very fruitful. Larger patterns of coherence come to the surface when one refrains from the procedure of atomizing the texts in original and secondary parts.The final chapter is devoted to the theological implications of the marriage imagery. What intriguing model of divine and human partnership is presented here? And what sort of intimate interaction between Yhwh and Israel is precisely envisioned?

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Author:   R. Abma
Publisher:   K.Van Gorcum & Co B.V.
Imprint:   K.Van Gorcum & Co B.V.
Volume:   40
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789023235095

ISBN 10:   9023235096
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 January 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: goals of the study; scope of the study; the selection of texts. Part 2 Background issues in relation to marriage imagery: introduction; on metaphor; the cultural historical background of the marriage metaphor; feminist approaches and hermeneutical reflections. Part 3 On method: a synchronic approach; prophecy as literature - poetry and speech; a model of interpretation; translation and presentation of the material. Part 4 Marriage imagery in Deutero-Isaiah: Deutero-Isaiah in contemporary research; Isaiah 50:1-3; Isaiah 54: 1-10;. Part 5 Marriage imagery in Hosea: the Book of Hosea in contemporary research; preliminary remarks to Hosea 1-3; literary structure of Hosea 1-3; translation of Hosea 1-2 with notes; Hosea 1; Hosea 2; Hosea 3. Part 6 Marriage imagery in Jeremiah: introduction; translation and notes to Jeremiah 2:1-4:4; demarcation; Jeremiah 2-4:4 in contemporary research; explanation of Jeremiah 2:1-4:4; passages with marriage imagery in Jeremiah 2:1-4:4; conclusions. Part 7 Theological implications of the biblical marriage imagery: introduction; reception of the marriage imagery - some voices; love, a technical term? Isaiah 50 and 54, Hosea 1-3 and Jeremiah 2-3; prominent aspects of the marriage imagery.

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Dr. Richtsje Abma studied theology at the University of Amsterdam and at Virginia Theological Seminary.

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